--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4127&n=3 > > "We must remember that these people are not at all like us," Conde > Nast publisher and Manhattan socialite Lucille Randolph Snowdon > said. "They are crude and provincial, bewildered by our tall > buildings and our art galleries, our books and our coffee shops. > For an L.A. resident to attempt to interact with one of them as > he or she would with, say, a Bostonian is ludicrous. It appears > unlikely that we will ever be able to conduct a genuine exchange > of ideas with them about anything, save perhaps television or > 'the big game.'"
Although this is condescending and oh-so-superior, there is an element of truth in it. For me, brought up on the two coasts and internationally, my first forays into the American midwest were pretty shocking. I kept running into people who had never been more than 200 miles from the place where they were born, and were proud of that fact. I remember a conversation I overheard between some girls at a bar in Madison, Wisconsin, in which 3 of the girls were teasing the fourth because she was "dating a foreigner." The boyfriend in question was from Illinois. Go figure. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
